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Telstra : "The Emperor Nasi Goreng"
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - June 07, 2021 09:11 - 1 hourThis week you can eavesdrop as Tones manages to insult our Tokyo correspondent (who also happens to be Mrs Tones), drops in a reference to expensive 1970s British furniture, and humble-brags his way through turning down a night on the slops with that bloke from Maroon 5 and sitting next to Daman...
Levis Launderette - Nick Kamen tribute
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - May 18, 2021 17:00 - 52 minutesI’m afraid you’re going to have to indulge us in another BBH-John Hegarty fan club swoon type of thing this week. We’d had decided to give BBH a bit of a swerve for a while but recent events made a review of this ad pertinent so let's put away the wobbly lips and jog on shall we? Buy a ticket o...
Scores on the Doors - Our Top 20 ads ranked
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - May 16, 2021 17:00 - 6 minutesWelcome to a tiny-weeny bonus bit of Classic Ads from Simpler Times. We’ve reviewed quite a few ads on the pod now so it seemed like as good a time as any to have a quick look at what we loved and what we didn’t and to create a hit parade of the top 20. Of course once we looked at the top 20, ...
KitKat + Shake & Vac (feat. Captain Alberto Bertorelli & Jenny Logan)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - May 11, 2021 17:00 - 43 minutesThis week the pod takes a slightly different format to the usual assault on your credulity. All will become clear as you do the listening thing. In the year that Bonn Scott drank himself to death, Kleenex went to a remote Scottish island to make a TV advert with an adult grizzly bear as the tal...
Maltesers + Shake & Vac (feat. Captain Alberto Bertorelli & Jenny Logan)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - May 11, 2021 17:00 - 43 minutesThis week the pod takes a slightly different format to the usual assault on your credulity. All will become clear as you do the listening thing. In the year that Bonn Scott drank himself to death, Kleenex went to a remote Scottish island to make a TV advert with an adult grizzly bear as the tal...
BONUS : Don Tacos (feat. Jason Ayers)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - May 06, 2021 17:00 - 10 minutesAny time there’s a temptation to take this whole podcast lark a bit seriously we'll just play a loop of Jason Ayers saying “When you asked me to do this I didn’t put much thought into it.” That’ll give us a bit of perspective. Jason's the founder and CEO of Sector 5, the Asia Pacific’s foremost...
John West - Bear (feat. Bob the Builder)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - May 04, 2021 17:00 - 54 minutesThanks for joining us again as we continue our mission of making it impossible for you to underestimate us. This week on the pod Tony’s Uber passenger rating raises its ugly head before we segue into me having a generic old man ranting at the clouds session about exotic birds parrots in ride-sha...
Sony Bravia - Balls (feat. Jose Gonzalez)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - April 27, 2021 17:00 - 49 minutesThis episode is recorded live in Tony's kitchen here in sunny Perth, Western Australia, where the time is 20 past 1987 and we’ve just been dropped back into a mini-lockdown because some bellend from Melbourne got Covid then went for a chicken parmi in Kardinya before dropping in at Coles so he c...
Nissin Cup Noodle - Primitive Man (best Japanese ad ever?)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - April 21, 2021 04:03 - 44 minutesHello pod-people. This week after a less than optimal start where once again I forget to turn on the voice recorder, we eventually get off the beaten track and look at the first ad from a Japanese advertising agency to ever win the Grand Prix at Cannes. Luckily enough Tones has a bit of experie...
Maxell - Me Ears Are Alight (feat. Desmond Decker)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - April 13, 2021 17:00 - 40 minutesHello pod people and welcome back to Classic Ads from Simpler Times, where the tone of recent email correspondence suggests that if this podcast were the prize at the end of the race people would be learning to run backwards. Some of our listeners, or at least those who are not permanently glue...
Honda - Cog
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - April 06, 2021 17:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode we will deliver a piece of trivia about how a well-known Japanese car brand sources the leather for its car seats that will literally. Blow. Your. Mind. Your mind. Will. Be. Blown.* This week the Pound shop time machine that is our podcast about old ads makes a crash landing in ...
Honda - Cog (Feat. Garrison Keillor)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - April 06, 2021 17:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode we will deliver a piece of trivia about how a well-known Japanese car brand sources the leather for its car seats that will literally. Blow. Your. Mind. Your mind. Will. Be. Blown.* This week the Pound shop time machine that is our podcast about old ads makes a crash landing in ...
QANTAS - I Still Call Australia Home (feat. Wolf Kahler)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - April 04, 2021 03:48 - 52 minutesIn this week’s drama-filled episode Tones let’s his guard down and reveals that he’s still not recovered from the shock of finding out that Tommy Cooper didn’t do the voiceover for the Lego Kipper ad. He snaps out of it just in time to seize the opportunity to go full-Bill Clinton during the in...
Boddingtons Bitter - Gondola (feat. Duckface)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - March 16, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutesThis week on the pod we'll hear how Enya cracked the shits with Steve and Tones over the Jean-Claude Van Damme Volvo advert review where Tones suggested she was from Scandinavia. The girl certainly has a bit of a potty mouth on her and may have over-reacted a tad…you can judge for yourself. El...
(Just one) Cornetto - Venice Gondola
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - March 09, 2021 17:00 - 54 minutesIn this week’s episode we’ll find out what an advertising agency specifically created to flog deodorant, washing powder and margarine comes up with when they’re presented with a brief to sell ice cream made in a factory just off the A38 in Gloucester. We’ll hear how a young Gene Wilder got his ...
R.Whites - Secret Lemonade Drinker
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - March 02, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutesThis week TV sitcom dinosaurs roam the earth and you can't pitch a TV ad to a client unless you're playing the jingle on a white grand piano whilst wearing fancy dress. Ah yes the seventies, where a glass of lemonade is a guilty pleasure to be taken in the middle of the night and the ad industr...
Maltesers - Lockdown Saggy Pants
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - February 24, 2021 01:40 - 29 minutesThis week another in our occasional looks at interesting ads on your screens right now (or right recently in this case) in this episode we look at some ads for Maltesers that ran in the spring of 2020 during the first UK COVID lockdown. There’s a bit of friction between Steve and Tones about th...
Lockdown Quiz - British ads of the 1970s (part 2)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - February 17, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutesBoth of our listeners will remember that we left off in part one with our lockdown quiz not so much teetering on the cliff edge of bad taste as flying off it like the Milk Tray man. I have tried to explain to Tones that every time he mentions Jimmy Saville a nun gets syphilis but he remains unco...
Lockdown Quiz - British ads of the 1970s (part 1)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - February 16, 2021 17:00 - 37 minutesHello pod-people. This week we’re straying from our usual format to bring you something a little bit different. After 10 months without any community COVID infections we got a live one here in Western Australia and last Sunday the state went into a 5-day lockdown. So what did we do? Just...
Lego - Anti-Kipper Ballistic Missile
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - February 09, 2021 17:01 - 37 minutesJoin us this week as we travel back to the beginning of time, when classic sitcoms began to climb out of the primordial ooze of the British TV industry. A time when Terry and June was considered edgy and the country was so bereft of talent that the same person could play an animated rodent secre...
MLA - Straya Day Lamb feat. Sam Kekovich
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - February 02, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutesWelcome back as we attempt to bring another bit of simple into your complex lives, in this case by looking at an old ad, with some very old attitudes. This week’s listen takes us back to 2005 and an Australian TV ad that suggests that if you’re dinkie-die then your celebration of yet another st...
Budwesier - Wassup
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - January 26, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutesIs it getting any simpler pod-people? Is anything helping? How about time travel? Maybe that would do it… Come with us back to 1999. In 1999 all some of us had to deal with was deciding which party you were going to where you wouldn’t cop off. It was nailed on that at the turn of the millenniu...
Budweiser - Wassup
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - January 26, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutesIs it getting any simpler pod-people? Is anything helping? How about time travel? Maybe that would do it… Come with us back to 1999. In 1999 all some of us had to deal with was deciding which party you were going to where you wouldn’t cop off. It was nailed on that at the turn of the millenniu...
Volvo Trucks - Epic Splits (feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - January 19, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutesAh yes, simpler times. Prepare to be entertained by; (a) An old-fashioned Old-Etonian pervert. (b) The Queen and her bowel problems. (c) The ad-industry giant now forced to live in a cave in the middle-east because he hit Nigella. (d) A Belgian bloke with a face like Ivy Tilsley after the p...
Hovis - Boy On a Bike
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - January 12, 2021 22:00 - 37 minutesIn this week’s episode we hear how a Two Ronnies parody of a bread ad wiped the memories of 1,000 people and then find out why Ken Barlow and Joanna Lumley’s love child got a pudding bowl haircut and spent two days cycling up and down a hill in Dorset. You’ll need to prepare yourself as we ente...
Everybody hates us...but we gave Jerry Seinfeld a platform
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - January 11, 2021 06:08 - 7 minutesIt’s an ethical dilemma that doesn’t exist. We get paid to make ads that sell stuff that people get paid to make so that they can go out and buy stuff that we make adverts for. You know how it goes, and it’s not our problem if the stuff you’re paying us to sell is shit right? No matter how mu...
Sony Playstation - Double Life
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - January 06, 2021 11:35 - 28 minutesIs your life mundane? Do you hate your job? Is your world full of people who aren’t happy that you drive like an Italian plumber?* Yes? Never mind. Watch this ad and it’ll be OK to tell the world that your best mate is an animated marsupial** or that all you really want do with your life is ta...
Fiat Strada - Handbuilt by robots
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - December 30, 2020 07:25 - 35 minutesIs it ever OK to celebrate great advertising for shit products? Join as we discuss the issue in our review of an ad for the brand-new Fiat Strada, a car handbuilt by robots out of tissue paper. No voiceover, no shots of the car driving around town with a British man at the wheel smoking a pipe...
Levis - Flat Eric
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - December 22, 2020 11:45 - 49 minutesLife imitates art. Advertising steals art. Agency usually calls it derivative to avoid lawyer stuff. In this case French artist-man says he doesn’t care as long as he can go to Los Angeles and spunk £400,000 making a telly ad. So off we go… Who do you turn to when you’ve just closed 11 of your ...
John Lewis Christmas 2020 (in partnership with Short Walk and a Handshake)
Classic Ads From Simpler Times - December 17, 2020 07:46 - 31 minutesWe're mixing things up a bit this week and in partnership with our sister-pod looking at an ad that's actually running in the UK today and asking is it worth A Short Walk and a Handshake? John Lewis Christmas ads were ‘event’ advertising when things like that mattered. Now the world’s fucked do...
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